1. Aeschylus - ANS-(525-456 B.C.E., approximate) An Ancient Greek tragedian. His
performs had been profoundly moral and religious, focusing on the vice of hubris, or
pleasure, by way of which individuals name down nemesis, or divine punishment, on
themselves. He used this subject matter in "The Persians", "Prometheus Bound", and
the "Oresteia" trilogy.
2. Agora - ANS-"Marketplace" in which the Boule met.
3. Akkadians - ANS-A semi-nomadic human beings, who spoke a Semitic language.
Migrated from the deserts west of Mesopotamia and settled within the Tigris-Euphrates
valley at some point of the 4th millennium B.C.E.
4. Albrecht Durer - ANS-(1471-1528) German painter who excelled in realism and who
studied art and engraving in Italy and taken it again to Germany.
5. Alexander the Great - ANS-(?-323 B.C.E.) The son of Philip of Macedon, who inherited
his empire. He overthrew the Persians and enlarged the dominion, and had created the
biggest empire the sector had ever visible by using the age of 33.
6. Alfonso de Albuquerque - ANS-Portuguese explorer who set up Portuguese buying and
selling posts alongside the west coast of India, the islands of Indonesia, and at the
mouth of the Persian Gulf from 1509-1515.
7. Amorites - ANS-Re-unified Mesopotamia, and hooked up their capital at Babylon, at the
Euphrates. The Amorites (Old Babylonian Dynasty) dominated for about 300 years, from
around 1900-1600 B.C.E.
8. Apuleius - ANS-(125-200 C.E.) Philosopher and author of the primary Latin novel, "The
Golden Ass."
9. Archilochus - ANS-(7th century B.C.E.) a famous Greek lyricist who pioneered the brand
new poetic form.
10. Archimedes of Syracuse - ANS-(287-212 B.C.E.) Greek thinker who calculated the value
of pi. Famed for, "Give me a lever long sufficient and an area to stand, and I will pass the
sector."
11. Archons - ANS-9 of those magistrates have been yearly elected to manual the
management of the Athenian polis, and have become participants of the Aeropagus
once their term expired.
12. Areopagus - ANS-A council of wealthy Athenian aristocrats who dominated the phratries.
13. Aristarchus - ANS-(310-250 B.C.E.) Greek thinker who postulated a heliocentric theory.
14. Aristophanes - ANS-(450-385 B.C.E., approximate) Used comedy to ridicule his fellow
Athenians. He lived for the duration of the Peloponnesian War and wrote numerous
plays along with "Acharnians" and "Lysistrata" to illustrate the stupidity of the war. He
poked amusing at his cutting-edge Euripides in "The Frogs" and at the philosopher
Socrates in "The Clouds."
, 15. Aristotle - ANS-(384-322 B.C.E.) Plato's maximum gifted pupil, who based his own
school in Athens referred to as the Lyceum. Differently from Plato, he emphasised the
primacy of physical items in preference to abstract principles.
16. Assyrians - ANS-Came from northern Mesopotamia to overcome the complete Near
East from the eighth to seventh centuries B.C.E. Used the practice of deportation to
assimilate unruly subjects into their tradition. Their capital at Ninevah on the Tigris river
became conquered in 612 B.C.E. By means of the Chaldeans (Neo-Babylonians).
17. Bartholomew Diaz - ANS-Portuguese explorer who crossed the equator, sailed to the
southern tip of Africa, and rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.
18. Boethius - ANS-(480-525) A Roman scholar who devoted himself to the look at of Plato
and Aristotle and is maximum well-known for his Neoplatonic textual content "The
Consolation of Philosophy." He prepared a translation of Aristotelian logical texts
referred to as the "Organon".
19. Carthage - ANS-The most vital of the Phoenician colonies, which finally became the
center of a powerful empire that threatened Rome in the course of the 3rd century,
B.C.E.
20. Catullus - ANS-(eighty five-fifty four B.C.E.) Ancient Roman poet who wrote passionate
love lyrics approximately his untrue mistress.
21. Chaldeans (Neo-Babylonians) - ANS-An empire that arose late in the seventh century
B.C.E. These peoples also deported rebellious populations, but have been much less
brutal than the Assyrians. Conquered Jerusalem and brought the Hebrew people to
Babylon. Fell in 539 B.C.E. To Cyrus the Great of Persia.
22. Charlemagne - ANS-(768-814) Son of Pepin the Short, who greatly extended the
Carolingian dynasty. On Christmas day, yr 800, he turned into topped Roman Emperor
through the pope. He founded schools to teach clergy, regulated monastic practice, and
accumulated collectively the greatest students from all over western Europe to his
courtroom at Aachen, which have become an global center of studying. Commissioned
accurate copies of the Vulgate Bible in a script is called the Carolingian minuscule.
23. Charles Martel - ANS-(688-741) Founder of the Frankish Carolingian dynasty. Held the
workplace of Mayor of the Palace and used it to control the Merovingian nation. Led the
Frankish protection in opposition to Muslim raiders and defeated them on the Battle of
Tours. This occasion averted Islam from setting up itself past Spain.
24. Christopher Columbus - ANS-(1451-1504) Genoese mariner funded by using Ferdinand
and Isabella of Spain to discover a new exchange direction to India. He reached the
Caribbean islands (West Indies) and Central America, and idea he had reached Asia.
25. Cleisthenes - ANS-Tyrant of Athens around 508 B.C.E. Replaced the phrarites with the
demes, or townships. Changed the 4 tribes of Athens to ten tribes that have been made
from the demes. Replaced the Council of four hundred with a Council of 500, which
became made up of 50 elected officials from every tribe.
26. Concordat of Worms - ANS-An settlement reached in 1122 over the investiture
controversy, which declared that churchmen may want to choose bishops, with the
approval of the emperor.
27. Conquistadors - ANS-Spanish adventurers or "conquerors" despatched to discover the
New World.
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